On the Measurement of Aging Anxiety

Aging anxiety is a distinct form of fear characterized by negative feelings associated with growing older. This study directly compared two common measures of aging anxiety within an older adult sample. Participants completed the Anxiety about Aging Scale, the Personal Anxiety Toward Aging Scale and several related constructs including ageism, expectations regarding aging, dementia worry, and death anxiety. The two measures significantly and strongly associated with one another. The Anxiety about Aging Scale (AAS) showed evidence of convergent validity through significant and strong correlations with ageism, expectations regarding aging, and death anxiety, and a moderate correlation with dementia worry. The Personal Anxiety Toward Aging Scale (PAAS) also showed evidence of convergent validity through strong correlations with expectations regarding aging and death anxiety, and moderate correlations with ageism and dementia worry. Factor analysis showed a better model fit for the AAS. Key findings lend support for the AAS as a psychometrically stronger measure than the PAAS for older adult assessment

Anxiety · Convergent validity · Death anxiety · Dementia · Disease · Feeling · Psychiatry · Psychometrics · Scale (ratio) · Worry · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Medicine · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychology · Social Psychology

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